Language: Japanese
Grade Level: High school
General Proficiency Level: 1st-4th year
Duration of Lesson: 2 60-minute Classes
DESCRIPTION
High school students will have the opportunity to explore Japanese bathing utensils and learn how to take a bath in Japan. Working with a partner, they will try to guess how to use certain bathing utensils, and will try to figure out different ways to use a tenugai bath towel. They will then design their own tenugui, invent a use for it, and make a poster explaining how to use it.
LESSON PLAN OBJECTIVES
With a partner, students will look at some Japanese bath utensils (bath bucket, bath stool, bath scoop, tenugui, bath scrubber) and try to guess how each item is used.
Students will watch short videos and read handouts about these bath utensils. They will also learn how to take a bath in Japan. Next they will practice the bathing routine with a partner, and then will grade their partner based on a rubric.
Students will look at real tenugui, as well as pictures of tenugui, and try to figure out the meaning of the patterns on the tenugui. They will learn how tenugui were originally used as a kind of meishi.
Students will next work alone or with a partner to create an original tenugui design, drawn on paper or cloth the size of a real tenugui (33cmx90cm).
Students will invent a use for their original tenugui, and will make a poster illustrating how to use the tenugui, following a rubric. They will display the posters throughout the school to tell others about the usefullness of tenugui.
ASSESSMENT ELEMENTS
STANDARDS
1.1 Interpersonal Communication · Students discuss with their partners how Japanese bathing items are used. · Students will tell and show their partners how to take a bath in Japan.
Students will brainstorm with their partners about an original design for a tenugui,and and original use for a tenugui.
1.2 Interpretive Communication
Students see videos and/or slides of tenugui and try to guess the meaning of the designs.
1.3 Presentational Communication
Students share their original tenugui, with an explanation about how to use it in a new way, through a poster.
2.1 Practices and Perspectives of Culture · Students become acquainted with Japanese bathing items and bathing customs.
2.2 Products and Perspectives of Culture · Students learn about the importance of cleanliness in Japanese society, and the multiple uses of such items as the tenugui.
4.2 Comparing Cultures · Students compare bathing customs in Japan, the United States, and other cultures.
II. LESSON PLANS
Lesson 1 Functions
Students will learn the names of some bathroom utensils at an onsen, and learn how to use the volitional form ～おう(Let`s~) when talking about going to an onsen. They will also talk about what they will do at an onsen, using the ~たら form.
Culture
Students will understand why Japanese people like onsen, why there are many onsen in Japan, and how to take a bath at an onsen using the appropriate utensils.
Materials
actual bathing utensils (teoke, senmenki, isu, tenugui)
handouts of webquest
handouts of vocabulary
handouts of grammar
Technology and Equipment
TV/DVD player with hookup to computer
Sequence of Activities
1. Teacher introduces vocabulary using Onsen Reading Assignment handout KANJI PRE-ACTIVITY, and shows students actual bath utensils.
2. Students look over the handout and circle any unfamiliar kanji, then try to figure out their meanings with a partner. Students also try to guess how to use the various bath utensils.
3.Students watch the "Let`s Visit an Onsen" video project {VIDEO] and read the sentences aloud. They work with their partner to figure out the meaning of the sentences.
4. Students report back to the class what they have figured out about the kanji in the reading assignment, and the usage of the bath utensils.
Lesson 2 THE FOLLOWING HAS NOT BEEN EDITED YET-AM USING IT AS A TEMPLATE.
Functions
Students will learn the basics for calligraphy, including how to hold the brush, how to make the ink, and how to write characters with the correct stroke order and proper balance.
Culture
Students will understand that calligraphy is considered an art form.
Materials
Calligraphy brushes, sumi ink, ink stones
Rice paper
Newspaper
Felt
Weights to hold down paper on felt
Chops to stamp onto rice paper at end
Red chop ink
Copies of various characters, and character compounds, with meaning and stroke order
Calligraphy video
Technology and Equipment
TV/DVD player with hookup to computer
Sequence of Activities
1. Students will watch a short video about calligraphy.
2. Teacher will demonstrate how to hold the brush, and how to make the ink with the ink stick and ink stone.
3. Teacher will explain proper stroke order, and the importance of balance in calligraphy.
4. Students will practice using the brush and drawing characters on newspaper.
5. Students will choose a character, or set of characters in a compound word, and practice on newspaper.
6. When students feel ready, they will write their chosen character(s) on rice paper, and use the chop.
7. Students will use a rubric to grade their own calligraphy, and will write a short reflection on why they chose their character.
8. Students will share their calligraphy and reflections with their classmates.
Onsen shugakuryokou
LESSON PLAN for teacherLanguage: Japanese
Grade Level: High school
General Proficiency Level: 1st-4th year
Duration of Lesson: 2 60-minute Classes
DESCRIPTION
High school students will have the opportunity to explore Japanese bathing utensils and learn how to take a bath in Japan. Working with a partner, they will try to guess how to use certain bathing utensils, and will try to figure out different ways to use a tenugai bath towel. They will then design their own tenugui, invent a use for it, and make a poster explaining how to use it.
LESSON PLAN OBJECTIVES
ASSESSMENT ELEMENTS
STANDARDS
1.1 Interpersonal Communication
· Students discuss with their partners how Japanese bathing items are used.
· Students will tell and show their partners how to take a bath in Japan.
- Students will brainstorm with their partners about an original design for a tenugui,and and original use for a tenugui.
1.2 Interpretive Communication1.3 Presentational Communication
2.1 Practices and Perspectives of Culture
· Students become acquainted with Japanese bathing items and bathing customs.
2.2 Products and Perspectives of Culture
· Students learn about the importance of cleanliness in Japanese society, and the multiple uses of such items as the tenugui.
4.2 Comparing Cultures
· Students compare bathing customs in Japan, the United States, and other cultures.
II. LESSON PLANS
Lesson 1 Functions
Students will learn the names of some bathroom utensils at an onsen, and learn how to use the volitional form ～おう(Let`s~) when talking about going to an onsen. They will also talk about what they will do at an onsen, using the ~たら form.
Culture
Students will understand why Japanese people like onsen, why there are many onsen in Japan, and how to take a bath at an onsen using the appropriate utensils.
Materials
actual bathing utensils (teoke, senmenki, isu, tenugui)
handouts of webquest
handouts of vocabulary
handouts of grammar
Technology and Equipment
TV/DVD player with hookup to computer
Sequence of Activities
1. Teacher introduces vocabulary using Onsen Reading Assignment handout KANJI PRE-ACTIVITY, and shows students actual bath utensils.
2. Students look over the handout and circle any unfamiliar kanji, then try to figure out their meanings with a partner. Students also try to guess how to use the various bath utensils.
3.Students watch the "Let`s Visit an Onsen" video project {VIDEO] and read the sentences aloud. They work with their partner to figure out the meaning of the sentences.
4. Students report back to the class what they have figured out about the kanji in the reading assignment, and the usage of the bath utensils.
Lesson 2
THE FOLLOWING HAS NOT BEEN EDITED YET-AM USING IT AS A TEMPLATE.
Functions
Students will learn the basics for calligraphy, including how to hold the brush, how to make the ink, and how to write characters with the correct stroke order and proper balance.
Culture
Students will understand that calligraphy is considered an art form.
Materials
Calligraphy brushes, sumi ink, ink stones
Rice paper
Newspaper
Felt
Weights to hold down paper on felt
Chops to stamp onto rice paper at end
Red chop ink
Copies of various characters, and character compounds, with meaning and stroke order
Calligraphy video
Technology and Equipment
TV/DVD player with hookup to computer
Sequence of Activities
1. Students will watch a short video about calligraphy.
2. Teacher will demonstrate how to hold the brush, and how to make the ink with the ink stick and ink stone.
3. Teacher will explain proper stroke order, and the importance of balance in calligraphy.
4. Students will practice using the brush and drawing characters on newspaper.
5. Students will choose a character, or set of characters in a compound word, and practice on newspaper.
6. When students feel ready, they will write their chosen character(s) on rice paper, and use the chop.
7. Students will use a rubric to grade their own calligraphy, and will write a short reflection on why they chose their character.
8. Students will share their calligraphy and reflections with their classmates.
History
http://www.kamawanu.co.jp/english/index.html
Environmental benefit
http://www.kamawanu.co.jp/english/index.html
Tenugui patterns with explanations
http://www.geocities.jp/woof163eng/tenugui.eng.html
The Let's Form http://maktos.jimmyseal.net/jip/week15.html
Japanese bathing customs
http://www.japaneseguesthouses.com/about/ryokan/bathing.htm
Japanese bath rules, with poster
http://sleetapawang.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!BD09644C5F6E196D!313.entry